Morphs, Mallards & Montages: Computer-Aided Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781568812311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 360 str.

Andrew S. Glassner

Opis

This book is for everyone who's interested in computer graphics and how it can take us on exciting journeys powered by imagination and a love of discovery and invention. Each chapter investigates a unique topic and gives you the tools to continue that exploration on your own. Examine the possibilities of: - Pop-up books and cards - Reconstructing shredded documents - Crop circles - Weaves and Tartans - Morphing images and much more Browse and enjoy the array of visual ideas or roll up your sleeves and write your own code.

Spis treści

Introduction. Chapter 1 Interactive Pop-Up Card Design. Chapter 2 Picking Up The Pieces. Chapter 3 Duck!. Chapter 4 Getting The Picture. Chapter 5 Digital Weaving. Chapter 6 Image Search and Replace. Chapter 7 Venn And Now. Chapter 8 DMorph. Chapter 9 Everyday Computer Graphics. Chapter 10 About Face. Chapter 11 Rolling Your Own. Chapter 12 Synthetic Cubism. Chapter13 Crop Art.

O autorze

Dr. Andrew Glassner Glassner created and edited the Graphics Gems series and the book An Introduction to Ray Tracing. He is also the author of the two-volume text Principles of Digital Image Synthesis. Glassner has written a regular column for IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications since 1996. Those columns have been collected in three books, Andrew Glassner's Notebook, Andrew Glassner's Other Notebook, and Morphs, Mallards, and Montages.